To wonder how my dd got to 14 thinking this was the real phrase?

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We've all be ill on and off since they went back to school.
One morning Dd was telling me that she had a 'bummed up nose' I asked her to repeat it and she said the same.
I tried to clarify what she was saying and told her it was actually 'bunged up nose'. She laughed and thought I was joking!
She's decided she's going to carry on saying it the way she does
Please tell me it's not just us.

We use spoonerisms in our family. "Par cark" and "chish and fips" spring to mind. I've always said chimley and hubby mispronounces hyperbole no matter how many times i correct him

My daughter thought, up until she was around 16, that mince pies were made of minced beef! She thought her room was a Bomsey Tit (it looks like a bomb's hit it!). Husband calls windowsills window seals and says 'illegible' instead of 'eligible'.

Well if we're doing lyrics

"I was sick and tired of everything
When I called you last night from Tesco"

Dd6 ... popcorn = cockporn.

My DD had a haemorrhoid when she was little after a bad tummy bug and has called it a herring bone ever since for some reason 😂

When I was younger I used to say emancipated instead of emaciated. I finally found out I was using completely the wrong word when my uni tutor was completely confused with what I was trying to say in an essay I wrote! 🤦🏽‍♀️

My ex-husband - chararistics instead of characteristics - drove me nuts
My daughter, when she was very little, Margar instead of Grandma - my mum loved it.

I still remember the hungry carpet pillow

I used to say forrid as a kid. Thought it was really strange as a teenager when it was pointed out it's actually forehead. I blame my mother.

Celestine70, surely “forrid” is the posh pronunciation (in SE England, anyway). I and most people I know say “forehead”, but my upper-middle-class aunt insists it's pronounced “forrid”, and quotes the rhyme: “There was a little girl who had a little curl right in the middle of her forehead; And when she was good she was very very good, but when she was bad she was horrid”.

My DS now 14, used to pronounce 'scythe' as 'ski-thee'. It wasn't until we listened to him read that we realised nobody had told him the correct pronunciation (although he'd never asked!)

My one is epitome. I say 'epitommy' but read it as 'epitohme'. Every. Bloody. Time . I annoy myself

DS2's school sent a newsletter the other day saying how the school would try their 'upmost' to maintain their good results...

I don't think forrid is posh as much as old fashioned. I still say it because that's what I grew up with but my DC would definitely say fore-head.

So I'm cheating on my own thread here but once when dd1 was finishing up a call on my Mobile to my mum I told her to put the phone down. She looked really confused and put the handset on the table whilst my mum mumbled her goodbyes. So I said 'no, hang up. Hang the phone up' she looked even more confused until I said 'just press the red button' 🤦‍♀️

I think you are probably right, Myimaginarycat. My aunt is in her sixties, and was brought up by fairly old-fashioned parents.

I Until I started learning to drive I thought it was jewel carriage way not dual carriage way 🙈😂

My daughters thought the same. The middle one asked where the jewels were. I was so confused

My daughter, when she was very little, Margar instead of Grandma - my mum loved it.

All the grandkids have called my mum 'mam-mar' except my youngest who went straight in with 'gran-mar' she was gutted!

If my dm had to break sharply in the car she would always say "woah Barry Davis" she doesn't have a clue who it is or why she says this.

Just thought of another one: my kids used to get so confused when I'd tell them to 'pull the chain' when they'd been to the toilet. I explained it means to flush it. It wasn't until we went to my university open day and used one of the older toilet blocks that I was able to show them a proper chain flush with an overhead cistern... Suddenly they understood!!!
('But Mummy, were all your toilets like that?' 'Erm well, yes...') I'm only 50 ffs!

My daughter calls compost com-post, like mail.

A lot of people all ages saying ‘ekcetera’

My daughter calls prawn cocktail crisps prawn cottontail. I think it's adorable.

I cannot for the life of me figure out how pork and stork sound different.

The only explanation I can think of is that Scottish people pronounce pork as “poo-erk” and stork as stork (like we do in England). Therefore they wouldn’t rhyme.

I may be completely wrong though!

Also, hope I haven’t offended any Scottish people with the last comment - it wasn’t intentional if so!

DS used to say underbrella for umbrella - I still think it makes more sense!

When little, my DD would say nail volish instead of nail polish or nail varnish - and now we all say it.

When I was little an aunt used to walk over the fields to our house to visit every Wednesday. When she walked home, my mum and I used to walk with her some of the way. When we parted I always heard her say 'see you next week, weather for knitting'. I always wondered why you needed the right kind of weather to knit... until years later when I realised out should be 'see you next week, weather marketing's.

I say 'forrid' for forehead. I was brought up by posh, old fashioned parents though!